Improvement in stove-leg supports



E. P..OUTTING .& E. A. LELAND.

StoVe-Leg Support.

Patented Dec. 2, 1879.

MPEfEK; PHOTOAUTNOGHAPHER. WASHINGTON. D. C.

UNITED ST FFIE.

EDWARD P. CUTTING AND EDWIN A. LELAND, on noLYoKn, MASSA- OHUSETTS, ASSIGNORS TO SAID EDWARD P. opTTING.

IMPRO VEMENT IN STOVE-LEG SUPPORTSL Specification forming part of L etters Patent No. 222. [80, dated December 2, 1879; application filed September 13, 1879.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, EDWARD P. OUTTING and EDWIN A. LELAND, both of Ho1yoke, Hampden county, Massachusetts, have in Vented a certain new and useful Improvement in Oastered Feet and Foot-Rests for Stoves, of which improvement the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The Object of our invention is to provide novel means for moving stoves, ranges, and furnaces in stores and salesrooms during the salesman s exhibition to customers, and also to save labor in delivering the same.

The greatweight ofa stove renders it a matter of considerable labor to move it out of place for i nspection by customers and for other purposes- Sometimes the stove has to be lifted by main strength. We renedy this by providing the feet with casters, so that the stove may be readilyrolled from place to place but in order to pernit the stove'to stand firnly in place when at rest, we provide, also, removable open rests, upon which the feet of the stove are supported and through which the casters hang without touching the floor, as will be hereinaft'er described. But as very few stoves are furnished with fixed casters, it becomes an Object to provide a proper way of attaching and removing them. This we effect by causing the caster-shank to pierce the bottom plate of the foot and secnring it by a nut.

Our invention, however, contemplates the use of an open rest for the foot of a stove-leg with a fixed or with a renovable caster.

When the stove is to be rolled the rests are removed by raising the feetfrom out of them. Thus the labor is rendered insignificant.

The following description will enable those skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use our invention, reference being 'had to the accompanying drawin gs, in which- Figure 1 is a perspective view of a stovefoot provided witl a caster and supported upon the rest, dotted lines showing the caster; Fig. 2, a perspective view of the foot of a a stove provided with a caster and showing the manner of seeuring the caster to render it removable, the foot-rest being removed; and Fig. 3, a vertieal section of the foot-rest.

The foot A of the stove is cast with a suffcient base-plate, a, having a perforation, 12,,

through which the shank c of the caster B is passed and secured by a screw-nnt, d, upon the upper side of the plate a, so that when the stove is sold and disposed of the caster may be removed.

The casters are applied to each foot, and

Opening, f, to receive the caster i such manner that the caster shall be free of the floor.

An a'nular rin, g, atthe top of the rest O surrounds the platform to hold the stove-foot on the rest. It is therefore well understood that when it becomes necessary to move the s'tove the rests are removed by lifting the feet from them.

We do not confine ourselves to the eXact construction of rest shown and descrbed; but it is necessary that the rest slall be provided with a rim and platform, support the foot, and allow the caster to hang within it Without toucling the floor. 4

The invention is a pplicable as well to ranges and furnaces and other heavy articles which have feet or legs.

Having thus fully described our said in-- vention and the manner in which the same is or may be carried into eifect, what we clam, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A stove-foot provided with a caster, in combination with an open circular rest adapted, as described, to support said foot and receive the caster free from the floor, substantially as described. a

2. The open rest or support C, adapted to receive a stove foot which is provided 'with a form e, and ring g, arranged snbstantially .as caster for the purposes set forth. and for the purposes set forth.

3. The combination,in the open. rest or sup- In testimony whereof We have hereunto pori: O for eastered steve-feet, of the annula' signed our namesthis 10th day of September, platform e and the annularim g, substan- A. D. 1879.

tially as described. EDWARD P. GUTTING. 4. The stove-foob A, in combination with EDWIN A. LELAND. the following elements, VZ: hase-pla te a, per- Witnesses: foration Z), caster B, shank c, screw-nut d, 0.1 LYMAN open rest G, Central Opening, f, annnlar plat- WM. H. BROOKS. 

